INTRODUCTIONTechnology Transfer and

Commercialization with UTEN@AustinCliff Zintgraff

Program Manager, UTEN@Austin

About UTEN@Austin

The mission of UTEN@Austin is to help build a globally competitive and sustainable science and technology commercialization infrastructure in Portugal.

UTEN is funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) through the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education.

UT Austin | Portugal CoLab

UTEN@Austin is one of four programs in the International Collaboratory for Emerging Technologies, or CoLab. UTEN works toward sustainable technology transfer in the program areas, and in other disciplines.

Digital Media

Advanced Computing Math Other

Areas

UTEN

UTEN Executive Board

• INESC Porto: José Mendonça, Chair• TecMinho: Manuel Mota, Jamie Ferreira,

Marta Catarino• UPIN, University of Porto: Jorge Gonçalves,

Maria Oliveira• IPN: Teresa Mendes• IST: Rui Baptista, Maria José Francisco

Organizations1. University of Algarve2. IST3. Taguspark4. University of Lisbon / IMM5. New University of Lisbon6. INPI7. University of Evora8. IPN / University of Coimbra9. University of Aveiro10. University of Porto / UPIN11. University of Porto / UPTEC12. University of Porto / FEUP13. TecMaia14. University of Minho / TecMinho15. University of Tres-os-Montes at Alto Douro

Technologies / Companies (sampling)1. Bioalvo2. Fluidinova3. WeAdapt4. PETSYS5. AuditMark6. Critical – RetMarker7. BlueWorks8. iSurgical 3DAnd more at …http://www.techportugal.com/index2.php

What Is Sustainable Tech Transfer?• Productive researchers

Who know how to work with TT staff & industry• Professional University TT staff

Office strategy Tech assessment Market analysis Licensing

• Supportive administration• Entrepreneurs• Local, national and global networks• Focused on the market

UTEN Activities

University Research License or Commercialize MarketL I V E C A S E S

Assessment

Training

Internships

Education

UTEN Values

Our “Style”Global market orientationGrassroots developmentLive casesChange agents / bias for action

Education

10-point curriculum for TT staff Integrated with live cases Strategy -> tactics -> execution

Training

National workshops Local workshops One-on-one sessions

Assessment

Portfolio Assessment Global Market Assessment

Brutal focus on market perceptions.

Internships

U.S. based Strategic goals for TTOs Embedded in U.S. organization Portfolio review / tech development

Today -- Researcher Workshop

11:00 Introduction11:15 Pitch Camp12:00 Best (and Worst)

Researcher Practices12:45 Wrap-up Panel13:30 Close

Entrepreneur Workshop

1. Introduction2. Global Market Strategy3. Global Market Assessment

Guidelines for today

1. Pick a technology.2. We won’t stop, but you can

take a break when the time is right.

Researcher Workshop -- The UTEN Way

InteractiveEngaging (we hope)Live-case basedEveryone involved – and if you’re not …

INTRODUCTIONTechnology Transfer and

Commercialization with UTEN@AustinCliff Zintgraff

Program Manager, UTEN@Austin

PITCH CAMPHeath Naquin, UTEN@AustinTom Gardner, UTEN@Austin

Reseacher’s Best (and Worst) Practices in Technology Transfer

STARRING

Heath Naquinas himself

Cliff Zintgraffas Dr. Jones

Tom Gardneras Discussion Leader

About The Mock Interviews

Two inventor interviews Just like in our RapidScreen assessment That reflect real interviews we’ve done That kindly highlight some issues about

how researchers could/should deal with commercialization professionals

Disclaimer

Any similarity to real persons or projects is totally on purpose.

INTERVIEW 1

“Rapid Response Contextual Phrase Matching with Enhancements from Frequency Domain Searches”

INTERVIEW 1

DISCUSSION

INTERVIEW 2

“EduPath – Solving Our Alignment Problems in Education”

INTERVIEW 2

DISCUSSION

Panel: Working With Your Tech Transfer OfficeMarta CatarinoTecMinho

Dina ChavesPedro VilarinhoNew University of Lisbon

Nuno SilvaMiguel CastanhoUniversity of Lisbon / IMM

Eli MercerUTEN@Austin

Name one behavior we discussed this morning – good or bad – that you’ve seen personally.  Tell us about it!  Tell us the impact of the behavior on the project you were working on.

What is the most important advice you can give researchers about working with your office?

UTEN Researcher Workshop is underway!

Join us in the Auditorium, right back corner of showroom.